Product Tester at Ignition Group

The role:

The Ignition Group is a proudly South African investment company focusing on Technology, Media, Telecommunications and Financial services.

Our employees are always at the forefront of business technology and we count on them to use their knowledge and skills, to move our company from strength to strength.

The Product Tester is responsible for performing audits and tests of software products in accordance with software testing plans, policies and procedures. The incumbent of this position is skilled in the software testing environment, database management, and component specific software and languages. The primary responsibility of this position is to catch, document and report any bugs, defects and coding errors that happen during testing to the software development team.

The detail:

Key Focus and Duties:

• Performing audits and tests of software products in accordance with software test plans, policies and procedures
• Debugging and characterizing defects
• Providing software evaluation reports detailing configuration and descriptions for passing and failing tests
• Executing software test plans, automated scripts and programs for testing
• Maintaining documentation of test operations and report results to software development team
• Identify actual and potential problems in test plans or company products
• Assist software development team in the diagnosis and replication of software failures
• Perform functional, regression, and end-to-end acceptance testing
• Providing reports on progress, anomalies, risks and issues associated with the overall project
• Executing test cases against stories, creating and maintaining tests in line with agreed testing standards and practices
• Providing feedback on user stories from a quality point of view and promoting bug prevention strategies, testability, accessibility

Knowledge, skills and attributes:

• Demonstrate the ability to plan and organize
• Excellent attention to detail and high accuracy
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills coupled with solid interpersonal skills
• Solid problem analysis and solving skills
• Excellent working knowledge of test methodologies, implementing test plans, test cases and debugging
• Extensive technical understanding across the digital domain
• Thorough understanding of test best practice
• Understand common software failures and faults
• Solid knowledge of software testing technologies
• Demonstrate ability to translate solutions into business terms and communicate to stakeholders
• Solid understanding of testing of IT systems, including manual and automation testing

We’d love to hear from you if...

• You have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or equivalent
• Relevant certification
• Proven experience in a variety of testing efforts
• At least 3 years’ experience in a similar position
• Experience of dealing with relevant stakeholders
• Experience in executing test strategies
• Good background on what is technically required to deliver IT solutions
• Experience with defect tracking and testing systems